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Open Letter to Michael Lynton, Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman and CEO re: The Interview
If the decision to pull The Interview from all platforms stands, it will represent a lasting blow for free expression, emboldening would-be censors the world over. Impoverishing creative freedom,… More
A First Edition Auction, With the Writers Nervously Looking On
If there’s anything more embarrassing to writers than revisiting their early works, it’s finding out just how much their neurotic second-guessing of their younger selves is worth in cold… More
Press Freedom in Ferguson: Letter to Attorney General Holder
On October 27, 2014, PEN sent the letter below to Attorney General Eric Holder asking the Justice Department to open an investigation into violations of freedom of the press… More
Louise Erdrich Wins PEN/Saul Bellow Award
PEN is pleased to announce that Louise Erdrich has been named the winner of the 2014 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. More
Louise Erdrich Wins PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
Erdrich exploded onto the literary scene in 1984 with her National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel Love Medicine. More
PEN Announces 2014 Translation Fund Winners
From a field of 120 applicants, the Fund’s Advisory Board has selected fifteen projects for funding. More
Announcing the 2014 PEN Literary Award Winners
The Literary Awards Ceremony will be held on Monday, September 29, 2014, at The New School’s Auditorium at 66 West 12th Street in New York City. The complete list… More
Open letter to Senate leadership: Mass surveillance is censorship
Dear Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.); Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Ranking Member Charles Grassley (R-Iowa); and Select Committee on Intelligence Chairwoman… More
Mass Surveillance is Censorship
Edward Albee, Don DeLillo, John Green, Rachel Kushner, and twenty-five other leading American writers joined PEN American Center today in an open letter to the Senate leadership demanding National… More
Nadine Gordimer: A Life Well Lived (1923-2014)
Nadine Gordimer was a remarkable author activist who did as much as anyone to rouse the conscience of the world to the iniquities of apartheid in South Africa. More